Lama

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Λαμά (Strong'S #2982 — pronoun — lama — lam-ah', lam-mah' )

is the Hebrew word for "Why?" (the variant lema is the Aramaic form),  Matthew 27:46;  Mark 15:34 .

King James Dictionary

LAMA, n.

1. The sovereign pontiff, or rather the god of the Asiatic Tartars. 2. A small species of camel, the Camelus lama of South America.

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

 Matthew 27:46. (See Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani.)

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Matthew 27:46 Psalm 22:1

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

LAMA . See Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Eli

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( Λαμά ,  Matthew 27:46, which is also read in the best MSS. at  Mark 15:34, where the received text has Λάμμα ; the Heb. has both forms, לָמָה and לָמָּה , Lam'Mah, For What; the Syriac version has Lemono), a term signifying Why (as the context explains it, Ἱνατί , by which also the Sept. interprets), quoted by our Saviour on1 the cross from  Psalms 22:1 [2 in the Hebrew].